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Gardening Initiative Helps to Address Food Insecurity
Food insecurity is a multifaceted issue affecting Canadian households and communities across the Nation. One community has been taking steps to change that. learn more →
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Innovative Research That's Advancing Equity
After a year’s hiatus due to the pandemic, Innovations in Research returns to spotlight SFU researchers and community partners who are advancing equity from across disciplines. learn more →
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Watermelon Snow: Science, art, and a lone polar bear
Join us to learn about and engage with SFU biologist Lynne Quarmby’s new book, ‘Watermelon Snow’. Reflecting on a work described as ‘brimming with intelligence, love, and sorrow’, and a ‘song of both love and grief’, an interdisciplinary panel comprising a political scientist, poet, climate scientist, cell biologist, and lawyer join in conversation. learn more →
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Funding Community Engaged Research and Paying People Equitably
Through spotlighting the reflections of CERi staff and researchers while inviting in the expertise and experiences of audience members, this webinar explores how to support the communities at the heart of community engaged research through adequate compensation. learn more →
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Heather De Forest on the Collective Power of Academic Libraries for Below the Radar
SFU librarian Heather De Forest recently spoke to Am Johal on the Below the Radar podcast to discuss her role as the lead in the Community Scholars Program and the collective power of academic libraries within the open access movement. learn more →
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Community Resource Handbook
This handbook is designed to help community organizations gain a practical understanding of community-engaged research. This how-to guide walks you through the process of community-engaged research and shows its value to communities and the people working alongside them. learn more →
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What is Community-Engaged Research?
Community-engaged research is premised on principles of reciprocity, including the shared ownership of research produced as a result of partnerships between scholars, students and communities. learn more →
Participation. Cooperation. Social Transformation.
CERi promotes principles of participation, cooperation, social transformation and knowledge translation to lift up and strengthen the capacity of SFU’s researchers and students, to engage respectfully and ethically with community members.
Research that supports positive community change.
Based out of the new 312 Main co-working space in downtown Vancouver, CERi is SFU's first research infrastructure developed for the purpose of extending community-engaged research to provincial, national and international communities.
Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) is a new university-wide strategic initiative of the Office of the Vice-President, Research.
LATEST POSTS
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April 08, 2021
April 08, 2021
Food insecurity is a multifaceted issue affecting Canadian households and communities across the Nation. One community has been taking steps to change that.
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March 31, 2021
March 31, 2021
After a year’s hiatus due to the pandemic, Innovations in Research returns to spotlight SFU researchers and community partners who are advancing equity from across disciplines.
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March 30, 2021
March 30, 2021
This blog is part of a series that features panelists participating Field Stories: Community-Engaged Research in Times of Crisis.
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March 24, 2021
March 24, 2021
This blog is part of a series that features panelists participating Field Stories: Community-Engaged Research in Times of Crisis. Art-ful Engagement in Small Cities: Beyond the Project will unpack the implications of project thinking, project funding and sustainability of CER initiatives.
PROGRAMS
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CERi’s Graduate Fellowship Program is designed to facilitate community-engaged research through a combination of financial support, mentorship, peer learning and professional development.
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CERi’s Community-Engaged Research Funding Program is a grant program available to SFU faculty and graduate students.
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In partnership with Vancouver Island University, the University of Northern British Columbia, and University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University Library coordinates a program to provide staff of charitable and non-profit organizations in British Columbia with access to the latest research and knowledge in their fields.
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CERi’s Researchers-in-Residence program supports and promotes SFU faculty members actively practicing community-engaged research or whose research involves CER methods.
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